BECAUSE 'THE JOB OF A CITIZEN IS TO KEEP HIS MOUTH OPEN.' -- GUNTER GRASS

Saturday, June 25, 2005

Children and parents

I heard it said before that the hardest thing about being a parent is letting your children make their own mistakes so they can learn from them. Corollarily, the hardest thing about being a child is watching your parents commit the same mistake over and over again as if they have learned nothing from their youth.

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I am currently the president of the environmental organization Health Care Without Harm-Asia (HCWH-ASIA). Previously, I served as the mayor of the Municipality of Gubat in Sorsogon. After studying politics at the University of the Philippines, I was a campaigner for the Burma program of the Initiatives for International Dialogue (IID), and later for HCWH-ASIA.